Microsoft Looking For Demand Planning Manager at Austin, TX Full Time

Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Capacity, Supply Chain & Provisioning (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world’s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.

Are you passionate about solving large scale supply chain problems in ever changing and rapidly growing cloud computing environment? Do you want to work in a planning team driving processes and modeling capacity planning innovations for server and network infrastructure? If yes, please continue reading on. The Demand Planning team is one of the most central functions within CSCP due its direct impact on Microsoft cloud business success. This team forecasts, plans and manages majority of Microsoft’s cloud services and directly influences cloud user experience. This is a central function that closely partners with Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Data Centers, NPI and Deployment Engineering. We are looking for a seasoned demand planning manager with strong partner management skills, insight and supply chain knowledge, and executive presence to transform the relationships with our partners from meeting their stated requirements to meeting their needs while optimizing the efficiency of our Cloud offering.

Responsibilities

This is a key role that leads plan development and engagement, while impacting customer capacity availability and the bottom-line cost for the Azure Business.

There are three key areas to this role:
1. Developing the usage forecast, translating it into hardware units with an optimal capacity plan across Azure workloads

2. Managing shiproom or S&OE execution decisions to balance demand supply risks

3. Engaging and partnering with a wide set of stakeholders including Software engineering, Finance, Supply Planning and Sourcing, and New Product Introduction teams to inform and influence, while delivering and balancing key measures such as plan accuracy, optimality, availability, and quality.

A successful candidate for this role will leverage their analytical, leadership, and communication skills to deliver innovative solutions that will transform the way our customers interact with our products.

• Serve as the primary focal point with engineering team for all capacity topics.
• Develop technical insights into the product, customer value, COGS and margin drivers to make well balanced data driven decisions for the business.
• Providing a clear forecast and prioritized capacity plan to the end-to-end execution teams and optimizing the plan for availability, business growth and cost.
• Partner with finance, execution, capacity management, software and hardware engineering teams to drive cluster decision to ensure right capacity is available in the right place at right time.
• Operationalize and drive the MBR (monthly business review) cadence for capacity planning
• Liaison with the hardware development organization to ensure SKU development and hardware roadmaps meet the business need by dates.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in supply chain, related product/technology, business administration or engineering field. MS or MBA degree is a plus.
• 3+ years of product / supply chain / business planning experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Passionate about Cloud Computing and willing to dive into in-depth technical discussions.
• Project Management experience managing the implementation of a medium to large Supply Chain Systems projects, including forecasting, demand planning, supply planning, purchasing / sourcing, warehousing / inventory management, transportation and distribution.
• Experience in Demand planning and/or Supply chain management and good understanding of different supply chain models and being able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to effectively manage key stakeholders, resolve problems and seek practical solutions.
• Proficiency in Enterprise Planning systems (such as SAP, Oracle, E2Open, etc.) and business intelligence engines (SQL, Power BI, Power Pivot, Tableau, etc.) are highly desired for this role.
• A proven track record of growth and increasing responsibility, specifically in acquiring scope/leading areas in supply chain and capacity planning.

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Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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